Inside Ben Schott's Head

People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What To Do About It, by Gary Leon Hill (2005)

Ben Schott files this under the category Odd Book Titles in The Bibliognost's Handbook (PDF), which is "A gallimaufry of bibliognostic miscellany for the festive Porcus Literarum" and a fine introduction to fascinating facts and minutia that Schott collects in his lint trap of a mind.

Radar Online has an interview with Schott by Matt Haber titled The Man Who Knew Too Much. As Schott says, "I was always the student who found the footnote much more interesting than the main block of text."

We keep a copy of Schott’s Original Miscellany in the Humanities department at Northwest College and highly recommend Schott's entertaining and edifying works.

• The Year in Questions (PDF)
• The web home of Schott's Miscellanies (with plenty of samples)
  
• Schott's Almanac 2007